The Business of Sickness

We expect quality, caring, expert treatment, and trust that we will emerge 'better'.

Has that been your experience?

Or are you amongst the increasing number of people whose hospital experience leaves you more weak,
stressed, malnourished and drug dependent than before....never mind financially strapped?

Sadly, the statistics suggest that this negative outcome is all too common. Have a look at these
shocking facts:

Hospital Horrors

Did you know that deaths at USA hospitals caused by medical errors fill four jumbo jets a week...2000
people, and that:

If medical errors were a disease, they would be the sixth leading cause of death in America.

Roughly a quarter of all hospitalized patients will be harmed by a medical error of some kind.

U.S. surgeons operate on the wrong body part as often as 40 times a week.

Some 20% to 30% of all medications, tests and procedures are unnecessary.

Around 90% of patients leave hospital with a cocktail of drugs: the average American aged 19 to 64
now

takes nearly 12 prescription drugs. The average senior is on 28. If just one average
prescription drug carries 70 side effects... do the math!

In the UK over 1,000 people have starved to death in NHS hospitals in the past four years. For every
patient who dies from malnutrition, four more have dehydration mentioned on their death
certificate.

Saved by Supplementation

Speaking of malnutrition, studies show how such malnutrition can be relatively easily and
inexpensively addressed via nutritional supplementation.

One robust study of more than 1 million adult inpatients in the US over an 11 year period found that
oral nutritional supplementation:

The study experts commented: "Patients identified as having nutritional deficiencies often face a
longer and more difficult recovery process, resulting in higher health care costs and an increase in
complication issues.....

... Research shows that oral nutritional supplementation can lead to highly positive economic
benefits and improved patient outcomes. Because oral nutritional supplements are formulated to provide
advanced nutrition for patients and are relatively inexpensive, the sizeable savings they generate make
supplementation a cost effective therapy."

So why isn't such a simple 'remedy' being taken, especially given the potentially huge cost savings
and improved patient health?

Before we try to answer that, let's put this cost factor into perspective.

Money Madness

Take a look at some more shocking facts about how the US health care system wastes more money than
the entire annual Pentagon budget:

A review of U.S. healthcare expenses has revealed that 30 cents of every dollar spent on medical
care is wasted, adding up to $750 billion annually

"Upcoding" Medicare bills cost taxpayers about $1.1 billion annually. In 2001, the two highest codes
were listed on about 25 % of the doctor-visit claims; in 2010, the two highest codes were on 40 % of
claims

The pharmaceutical industry is the biggest defrauder of the US government. Most recently,
GlaxoSmithKline plead guilty in the largest health fraud settlement in US history. The company was fined
$3 billion to resolve criminal and civil liability charges related to illegal drug marketing and
withholding information about health hazards associated with its diabetes drug Avandia

Many pharmaceutical companies are now being investigated for using questionable methods to boost
sales

outside the US as well. In August 2012, Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, paid $60.2
million in fines to settle charges that the company had paid-off an assortment of government health
officials in China, Russia, Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, and Kazakhstan

Now What?

We see a situation where chronic disease just in the US is costing $84 billion in lost productivity,
'Health Care' is more like 'Sick Care', and simple nutritional interventions like supplementation is
recognised but ignored.

Why?

Perhaps because the Sickness Business = Big Business.

As Dr Guylaine Lanctot says: "The bottom line is that the medical systems are controlled by
financiers
to serve financiers. Since you cannot serve people unless they get sick, the whole
medical system is designed to make people sicker and sicker."

Please don't become a sick statistic. Take the best medicine: avoid the established health / sick
care system by loving life and leading a healthy lifestyle

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